News in 49.0, 2026-01-03
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* Metainfo data: add more infos to fix Flathub warnings.
* Cleanup: remove BuildStream and Snap from build-aux/ (outdated).
* Translation updates.

News in 49.alpha2, 2025-11-17
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User-visible changes:
* Add a max-file-size setting for document loading, fixing the common problem
  with very large files.
* New symbolic app icon (to have a square one).
* Statusbar: fix a bug with the language button popover.

Under the hood changes:
* Fix a compilation warning.
* Statusbar:
  - Move some features of GeditStatusbar to libgedit-tepl as TeplStatusbar.
  - GeditWindowStatus: new internal class to offload some work that was done in
    GeditWindow, to avoid a god class.
  - *.ui -> code.

Other:
* Translation updates.
* Tools: generate-html-list-of-plugins-description.sh script (output HTML
  content that is put on the website instead of generating a Markdown file
  located in the git repository).

News in 49.alpha1, 2025-09-05
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User-visible changes:
* gedit icon: take an older version for small sizes. The older version looks
  nicer.
* Code Comment/Uncomment plugin: some bugs have been fixed, and the behavior can
  be slightly different in some situations. A new user manual page has also been
  written.
* Setup allowed GDK backends to disable Wayland. Only the X11 backend is allowed
  on Linux (so it relies on XWayland when running the application on a Wayland
  session). It fixes some bugs, especially for the Word Completion plugin.

Under the hood changes:
* Tools: add generate-c-plugin, to generate the boilerplate C code for a new
  plugin.
* Code Comment/Uncomment plugin: rewrite it in C, and have the bulk of the
  implementation in libgedit-tepl.
* Port to new GtkSourceEncoding API.
* GeditTab refactorings:
  - Extract gedit-tab-utils.c.
  - Start to extract GeditTabLoader (private class).
* Various other code refactorings.

Developer documentation:
* Improve the developer documentation, and start to write the
  “Gedit Development Guidelines”.
* Improve API docs of the Activatable classes.

Other:
* Metainfo data: add a donation URL.
* Translation updates.

this port does not install any shared objects into ${PREFIX}/lib